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Re: [idn] WG last call summary



> There certainly isn't IDN WG consensus on IDNA as the long-term IDN
> solution. In fact, many of us suspect that there's consensus on the
> following statement, which implies that IDNA is merely temporary:
> 
>    The long-term IDN solution will encode Unicode characters as UTF-8 on
>    the wire.

I doubt we'd reach consensus on that either, since many of us suspect 
that the following statement is closer to the truth:

	The on-the-wire encoding of IDNs is irrelevant; what matters is the 
 	behavior experienced by users.

Keith